Happy New Year

Minaret

Minaret of the Beyazit Mosque

Happy Holidays

Credit for this photo, goes to my friend Mehmet...

Wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year...

Around the World

Ending up at the Bosphorus...

Marmaray

The Marmaray Project provides an upgrading of the commuter rail system in Istanbul, connecting Halkalı on the European side with Gebze on the Asian side with an uninterrupted, modern, high-capacity commuter rail system.

More information is available here.

Koc Museum

The restaurant of Koc Museum, at Golden Horn.

Hi There

Hello.....

Back to the City

A street scene at Osmanbey

Latern

At a cafe in Sile

Şile

Sile is a small holiday town at the Black Sea, around 70 km to Istanbul

It is famous with it's beaches and wild sea.

City's

City's at Nisantasi...

Osmanbey

Osmanbey is an upscale neighborhood which is famous with its very nice shops and windows.

It is a heaven for shopping.

Shoes

Well that was interesting, these shoes were hanging out there just opposite the beer mill.

I wonder why and who put them there.

Any ideas?

Beer Mill

This building is an old beer mill.

Will be renovated and converted to an exhibition centre.

It is in Sisli, European side of Istanbul

Another Mosque

Eminonu, is the richest area of mosques, it is the old city.
This one is opposite to New Mosque.

Bunnies

I feel, that it's gonna be a great weekend....

Uskudar, Today

Anatolian side of Istanbul.

It is cold and overcast today.

Closer

Suleymaniye Mosque

Suleymaniye Mosque, masterpiece of Architect Sinan.

My favorite in Istanbul

What a Cemetery

Looking over the Golden Horn.

It is been a very popular cemetery for hundreds of years. Not beacuse of the great view only, it's also very close to Eyüp Sultan Mosque and Tomb, who is an important figure of Islam.

Last One

When I was leaving the Maiden Tower, I just looked back for the last time

and captured this last photo

Wish you all a happy weekend

Door

The main entrance of Maiden Tower

Dogies of Maiden Tower

Don't know wheter they are happy to be there or not, but one thing is for sure;

they have a great view...

Maiden Tower

Closer...

There are many legends about the construction of the tower. A sultan had a daughter. One day, an oracle prophesied that she would be stung to death by a venomous snake bite on her 18th birthday. The sultan, in an effort to thwart his daughter's early demise by placing her away from land so as to keep her away from any snakes, had the tower built in the middle of the Bosphorus to protect his daughter until after her 18th birthday. The daughter was placed in the tower, where she was frequently visited only by her father.
On the daughter's 18th birthday, the sultan had her brought a basket of exotic sumptuous fruit as a birthday gift, delighted that he was able to prevent the prophecy. Upon reaching into the basket, however, a snake that had been hiding amongst the fruit bites the young woman and she dies in her father's arms, just as the oracle had predicted. ( According to Wikipedia)

I will continue on Maiden Tower, tomorrow...

Voila ....

Maiden Tower

And on the background, the Blue Mosque, Haghia Sophia, Topkapi Palace together...